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Trump’s Greenland Obsession May Be About Extracting Metals for Tech Billionaires | The great battle for Greenland is probably all about resources to make apps like ChatGPT better.


The great battle for Greenland is probably all about resources to make apps like ChatGPT better.

Cantor Fitzgerald, a powerful financial firm owned by Trump’s current nominee for U.S. Commerce Secretary, Wall Street billionaire Howard Lutnick, has a stake in Critical Metals. Last week, the Trump administration announced project “Stargate,” a $500 billion effort to build data centers across the U.S. with money from OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Oracle, and other big-name players in the AI industry. Another factor to keep in mind is the growing influence of the “Network State” movement, a bizarre side-project of Silicon Valley’s billionaire class that seeks to create a diaspora of privately-funded, crypto-powered cities in countries all over the globe.

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